To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

God sends us pieces of art so that we may see ourselves in them

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

You have first to experience what you want to express.